Donald Trump at an election night watch party at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump swept nearly all of this year’s Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, routing his last major rival for the Republican presidential nomination, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and putting him within striking distance of a November rematch with President Biden, the Democrat who beat him in 2020.
Biden also won lopsided victories on Tuesday across 15 states.
Trump, who gained several hundred delegates with major wins in states such as California and Texas, is now on the verge of becoming the GOP’s presumptive nominee for the third straight election cycle.
His only loss was in Vermont, where Haley scored a narrow upset.
“Nov. 5 is right around the corner,” Trump said from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, referring to Election Day. “Nov. 5 is going to go down as the single most important day in the history of our country.”
In a statement, Biden said that “tonight’s results leave the American people with a clear choice: Are we going to keep moving forward or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us backwards into the chaos, division, and darkness that defined his term in office?”
A full 854 GOP delegates were up for grabs Tuesday — more than a third of this year’s total. A candidate needs 1,215 delegates to clinch the 2024 Republican nomination. Trump’s delegate advantage is continuing to grow as results come in from around the country.